Alex Linfield: WYSIWYG

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Alex Linfield, "Building a Typeface," 2019

installation view, silkscreen print on glass, slip cast ceramic, acrylic, digital print on cardboard. 24" x 34" (glass).

Alberta Printmakers (A/P) is pleased to present: WYSIWYG by Alex Linfield

February 24, 7-8 pm MST: Join A/P's current exhibiting artist, Alex Linfield as he discusses his contemporary print installation 'WYSIWYG.'

Register your attendance for this online event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlce-oqz0oGNcQg3HOoPNFIoGjC8qXobAu

Artist Statement:

What is so new about “new media”? The original definition of “media” meant “material” (wood, bronze, ink, and so on). How ironic is it that new media (or digital media) is viewed as holding an immaterial existence? The digital image is “made” of light and a language of binary code, not ink and paper. But why is this shift towards immaterialism an important distinction between our original definitions of media?

As printmakers, we know why the adoption of new forms of media marks important cultural shifts, having intimately studied the implications of the printing press. With the birth of print media, radical changes in fundamental concepts such as originality, ephemerality, identity, and time were forced to suit the existing media models. We are now once again faced with an epistemological and ontological crisis of the image in contemporary times.

Materials such as dust are known for their strong connection to the passage of time and human indexicality. However, through the works in this exhibition, many fundamental concepts of being are defamiliarized through subtle digital manipulations of familiar materials and surfaces.

Biography:

Alex Linfield is a multidisciplinary artist, newly based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. Linfield holds an MFA from NSCAD University and a BFA from the University of Alberta.

*A/P is participating in the Restriction Exemption Program. In-person visitors are welcome to attend and must show valid proof of vaccination, a recent negative test, or medical exception in accordance with all current CMOH Orders.